So, is the new Parker, who fights back against the bullies, not so much of a nerd, then?

“It’s cool to be a nerd now,” The Social Network actor told us. “Peter is an outsider. Because that’s what he has to do to protect himself. He was dropped once; he doesn’t want to be dropped again. It’s difficult to get close to him.”

“I plastered my walls with page after page of artwork and spent hours trying to get my body as extreme as possible. “I didn’t want to be a bulky guy. I wanted to be a skinny kid beating the crap out of big guys.”

Peter: You know how people have... different sides to their personality? Sometimes a person will have to actually lead a different life.

Gwen: Oh my god your gay.

Peter: No, I'm not gay. Y'see, my life is really... complex. All right, listen. You know how a normal person gets up and goes downstairs and eats breakfast and kisses somebody good-bye, and goes to a job, and, you know? Look, what I'm trying to tell you is...

Peter: You know how people have... different sides to their personality? Sometimes a person will have to actually lead a different life.

Gwen: Oh my god your gay.

Peter: No, I'm not gay. Y'see, my life is really... complex. All right, listen. You know how a normal person gets up and goes downstairs and eats breakfast and kisses somebody good-bye, and goes to a job, and, you know? Look, what I'm trying to tell you is...

Holy shit, i skimmed through the latest issue of "Kick Ass 2" at work today, and it was beyond horrible; Hell, now that I think about it, Mark Millar's "original" works (kick ass, wanted, superior and nemesis) are probably on the top five list of the worst things i've ever read in my life.

In all seriousness tho, where the hells Keatons Bill Murray-style renaissance where we're all reminded how fucking awesome he is? Where's his Albert-Brooks-in-Drive role that makes everyone sit up and remember the dudes epic talent?

It's not even changing the circumstances that really irk me, it's that it's obviously being changed just to say that they're different from Raimi's take while at the same time missing what it was about Peter's wrestling match that drove his guilt. Uncle Ben didn't die because Peter went somewhere he shouldn't; it was because he had a chance to do the right thing and didn't.

In all seriousness tho, where the hells Keatons Bill Murray-style renaissance where we're all reminded how fucking awesome he is? Where's his Albert-Brooks-in-Drive role that makes everyone sit up and remember the dudes epic talent?

He was the best part of The Other Guys and we've got Beetlejuice 2 coming. Hopefully My Life Too is not far behind.

The trailer did make me want to see this. I thought once the origin story is done, it could be a good movie. Now that I know about how convoluted Uncle Ben's death is going to be, I can wait till Redbox.

Christ we've gone from origin movies to origin trilogies now??? You couldn't make this shit up.

This ridiculousness, the retarded Vista handheld, their consumer electronics losing their reputation as market leaders - seriously, what the fuck is going on over at Sony these days???

I'm a bit late to the party, but I suspect the reason Hollywood is so obsessed with beating origin stories into people's heads these days is, it's just another item on their checklist of how not to offend the audience. Everything has to be explained and given some kind of motivation, because they make movies for people with the lowest standards. People who are so stupid and lazy that they don't understand and even outright reject ambiguity in cinema. Hollywood caters to those people, they make these movies FOR THOSE PEOPLE. They don't make these movies for people on chud, or for people who like transgressive cinema for instance. Raimi, Nolan and Favreau do a god job within those confines, but there is still a distinct lack of bravery in these tent pole flicks and you end up getting stupid shit like the origin being part of the trilogy and having to shine a spotlight on every little motivation. It's part of this problem of not trusting a comic book character to just be a comic book character that wears its camp and goofiness on its sleeve without apologizing for it with needless rooting in reality. It can't be the "batmobile"...it has to be the "tumbler". And I'm not talking about making comic book movies like the Schumacher abortions, I'm talking about something like Blade...a film I feel really nailed the tone, and had a great balance of camp and seriousness without having to shoehorn motivation into everything, and make excuses for being a comic book movie.

It's not even changing the circumstances that really irk me, it's that it's obviously being changed just to say that they're different from Raimi's take while at the same time missing what it was about Peter's wrestling match that drove his guilt. Uncle Ben didn't die because Peter went somewhere he shouldn't; it was because he had a chance to do the right thing and didn't.

Since I haven't been reading up much about this movie, I have no idea that they changed the circumstances surrounding Uncle Ben's death. This movie has just dropped my enthusiasm to see it by several notches.

Also, origin stories are the easiest, because it has a built-in character arc. When you get down to it, it's very hard to justify fourth or fifth movies about a character when there's just less basic ways for them to change. Spider-Man IV would have had him leaving Mary Jane, I think (I know there was supposedly more to it), which feels like cheap melodrama to change the status quo coughONEMOREDAYcough.

Sony/Marvel should have worked their deals out and organised something like this for a second Avengers film. Imagine suddenly throwing spider-man into something like that universe. Maximum profit for all!!!

Ugh. I feel like I should like these two nubskulls, because they lucked their way up from TV, but their scripts continue to be aggressively stupid.

I'm fairly certain they never wrote anything that did not fit this description, they've made it on the good will of aggressively stupid audiences alone. At least some of the films they've been involved with contained a sense of wonder while lacking any kind of intelligence.

The Orci/Kurtzman development speaks volumes. Sony thinks they have a dog on their hands and they're bringing in the guys who wrote the Transformers movies to guarantee that the next outing is a crowd pleaser. Marc Webb is surely out of the director's chair, and if audiences don't cotton to Garfield's angry young man Peter Parker, expect a recasting. And they won't redo the origin again. We'll get a soft reboot ala BATMAN FOREVER and INCREDIBLE HULK. If it underperforms. Which it will.

The Orci/Kurtzman development speaks volumes. Sony thinks they have a dog on their hands and they're bringing in the guys who wrote the Transformers movies to guarantee that the next outing is a crowd pleaser. Marc Webb is surely out of the director's chair, and if audiences don't cotton to Garfield's angry young man Peter Parker, expect a recasting. And they won't redo the origin again. We'll get a soft reboot ala BATMAN FOREVER and INCREDIBLE HULK. If it underperforms. Which it will.

Sony's all but said they have a dog with their awful marketing. Bland trailers, posters and using the strangest promo clips to post online.

Yeah, will do SUPERMAN RETURNS business, and will be received much the same way I think. The Spider-Man franchise has echoed the Superman one in many ways, and I think the trend is going to contimue here.

Superman's being rebooted for legal reasons. I don't like it. But I get it.

Sony's reasoning for rebooting Spider-Man is entirely arbitrary. They didn't have to reboot everything back to high school. They could have kept going with the same continuity and supporting players and just change out Pete and MJ.